Europe & Americas

For the first time, US researchers have cloned embryonic stem cells from adult cells, a breakthrough on the path towards helping doctors treat a host of diseases. The embryonic stem cells–which were created by fusing an adult skin cell with an egg cell that had been stripped…

Russia, Ukraine and the West reached a surprise deal on Thursday aimed at easing the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War, but the US president, Barack Obama, cautioned it was uncertain if Moscow would stand by the agreement…

Russian leader Vladimir Putin warned that Ukraine is on the verge of civil war, the Kremlin said Wednesday, after the Kiev government sent in troops against pro-Moscow separatists in the east of the country…

The Russian prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, on Tuesday said Ukraine was on the verge of civil war as Kiev authorities launched a military operation against pro-Kremlin militants in the separatist east…

Dutch police have arrested a teenaged girl after she allegedly tweeted a threat to American Airlines posing as an al-Qaeda member, a police spokesman said on Monday. The 14-year-old girl named Sarah ‘reported to the police this morning…

A Milan court has ruled that Silvio Berlusconi will perform a year of community service for his tax fraud conviction at a centre for the elderly. The assignment curtails Berlusconi’s ability to participate in the upcoming European election campaign…

The US president, Barack Obama, said the Republican Party is threatening voting rights in America more than at any point since the passage of a historic 1965 law expanding rights at the ballot box to millions of black Americans and other minorities…

Ukraine will not prosecute pro-Russian separatists who seized government buildings if they surrender their weapons and disperse, the country’s president said on Thursday, in a bid to ease a crisis that stoked fears of the country’s break-up.

It may sound far-fetched, but scientists are attempting to build a human heart with a 3-D printer.
Ultimately, the goal is to create a new heart for a patient with their own cells that could be transplanted. It is an ambitious project…

Former president Bill Clinton used the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act to criticise efforts in several states to restrict voting, notably photo identification requirements, saying they threaten to roll back half a century of progress…